PUNE: Finance MinisterArun Jaitley has proposed introducing a digital depository for school leaving certificates, and school and college marketsheets. This would provide a platform to safely store these documents as well as provide for easy retrieval, he said. There is a possibility that this digital depository may be linked with the person's Aadhaar number given that there already is a digital locker linked with it.

On their side, schools too seem to be opening up to the idea of virtual documents with the CBSE board issuing virtual marksheets and documents in addition to the hard copies. Certain universities, including Mumbai Universities, too have started offering digital depositories for students to store their marksheets and degrees virtually.

The DigiLocker, which is currently linked with Aadhar, is a way to store, receive and authenticate documents on a virtual locker. It was launched in July last year and as of December 2015 had 10,50,335 registered users. The department of electronics and information technology (DEITY) meanwhile is said to be working on alternatives that will act as means of authentication along with Aadhaar to revive some of these projects.The DigiLocker is being used primarily to save government documents like birth certificates, PAN card data, marksheets etc.